Page 10 - link magazine

10 FRESHBROOK & GRANGE PARK
Internet Ted links history
with new technology

A ninety year old from Freshbrook gives the adage,'you're never too
old to learn' a new meaning.
Ted Mackenzie has eagerly taken r
to computers and the Internet af-
ter taking a free course at Swindon
College's Learning City training
centre. On 19 March he became
the first winner of the new Life-
'!^
long Learning Award, presented ^
by College principal Dr Steven
Griffiths at the annual prize giving "It's wonderful getting on the
The only 01793 ceremony. Internet; I have friends all over the
number
you need 333888 duction manager with the Daily country and I'm looking forward
Bachelor Ted was a national pro-
to contacting my great niece in
Mirror in the 1930s and spent fif- China."
teen years in colonial administra- In a fascinating historical refer-
FR ° 6 ESTI ,, ATE & ADICE tion in Nigeria until he retired at ence, Ted is using his father's old
telegraphic identification in his
independence in 1961. Part of his
x
long retirement has been spent
ocean racing and cruising around own e mail address. His father
was a Daily Mail war correspond-
the Caribbean. ent in the 1890s sending back tel-
Describing his new hobby, Ted egraphed reports from conflicts
YOUR LOCAL GARAGE DOOR said, "you have to know something around the world.
SPECIALISTS about computers nowadays. I re- Even the most organised of com-
ceived excellent instruction; it's a puter users are struck by glitches
UP AND OVER GARAGE DOORS SUPPLIED,
marvellous course at Learning and Ted's machine went down in
FITTED, REPAIRED (SPARE PARTS AVAILABLE) iD ® City. For all those people who are early March. "It was cruel to lose
REMOTE CONTROL FOR INCREASED SECURITY ®® afraid of new things, its about everything," he said. "But it was a
learning, not education - you re- good way of learning how to rein-
SWINDON ally are never too old to learn. stall all the software."

Maxwell House • Maxwell Street • Swindon Books and computers together
Pupils at Freshbrook School are combining technology and literacy
with the opening of a new facility.
The school library and comput- port Assistant had been taken on
Comfortable ers have been brought together in to assist with IT learning and the
needs of year 6 children.
adjacent rooms so that half a class
Teachers have also received ex-
can be reading and choosing books,
whilst the other half is learning tra training so that the use of the
independence information technology skills. computer room could be planned
Deputy headteacher Jane Par-
into curriculum delivery.
sons said that governors and par- Galileo has donated fifteen com-
ents had helped reorganise and puters which will be networked
redecorate a cloakroom area and a and the school hopes to have an
classroom, and also install special Internet connection in operation
lighting. A new Education Sup- soon.
ESA Ladan Davarpanah, front, and parent helper Kini Drayton work with
children in Mrs Lesley Gallimore's reception class

For your retirement living, we have vacancies
at Brain Court, Stratton St. Margaret and Windmill
Court, Freshbrook, Swindon.
Please contact our Regional Office:
Western Region, 10 The Parade
Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1NE
Tel: 01672 515622
SHELTERED PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH

James Butcher

Housing Association